The jury reached the verdict on the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British woman accused of procuring underage girls to abuse Jeffrey Epstein, the US billionaire who committed suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial for his sexual crimes. The woman was found guilty of sexual crimes. This is the verdict of the jury after almost 40 hours in council chamber, according to what the American media reported.
The verdict ended a month’s trial with sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teenagers in the 1990s and early 2000s in Epstein’s lavish Florida homes. , New York and New Mexico. Jurors ruled for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty on five out of six counts. He faces the likelihood of years in prison, a long-sought result by women who have spent years fighting in civilian courts to hold Maxwell accountable for his role in recruiting and luring Epstein’s teenage victims and sometimes joining in sexual abuse. The defense had insisted that Maxwell was the victim of a vengeful prosecution designed to bring justice to women deprived of their main criminal when Epstein committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.